Miami Dade College to host the 2007 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Tournament

December 20, 2007

Miami Dade College to host the 2007 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess
Tournament

~2007
Pan American Tourney to be held at MDC Thursday, Dec. 27 through Sunday,Dec.
30~

Miami, December 21,
2007 – Miami Dade College (MDC) will once again host the 2007 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Tournament,
which runs from Thursday, Dec. 27 through
Sunday, Dec. 30. MDC previously hosted the tournament in 2005.

The best collegiate chess teams in
the nation are expected to participate including perennial chess powerhouses
the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Maryland at Baltimore
County, as well as teams from Yale, John Hopkins University, Stanford, and the
University of Chicago, among others. Teams are also expected from Canada and
the Caribbean.

The four top teams from the
tournament will go on to the Final Four of Chess; the most highly regarded
collegiate chess competition in the U.S., often referred to as the World Series
of Collegiate Chess.

The MDC team has made it to the
Final Four tournament every year since two students discovered a mutual passion
for playing chess five years ago. This month, the MDC team is back with a
voracious appetite for the championship title.

This year’s players include
Renier Gonzalez, who recently completed his norms to attain the Grand Master ranking;
the highest ranking a chess player can attain worldwide, Javier Gonzalez,
Charles Galofre, and newcomer Devlin Sinclair from Jamaica.